We are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation. Please aim to leave this community better than you found it, and for your contributions to be beneficial in the real world.
With your help, site administrators and moderators will help us keep our community healthy and relevant through the following actions:
Disagree With Purpose and Respect Lived Experience
You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But please do so in the spirit of raising critical questions or calling out injustice. This isn’t a place for tone-policing or defensiveness.
Please keep in mind, not all unflattering statements constitute personal attacks, and individuals from different backgrounds may experience the same situations or interact with the same individuals differently.
Please refrain from being dismissive or seeking to discredit first-hand accounts shared by individuals simply because they may not reflect your own personal experience.
Please keep in mind that digital spaces (e.g. email, social media, forums) may have their shortcomings as far as understanding people's actual intentions and feelings. We don't see each other's faces on this platform, and everyone has a different discourse. In addition, English is not the first language some of our members speak which may make them put their thoughts into writing in different ways than speakers of English, which is the primary language of the forum. In any case, if a message from a member in response to yours is confusing to you or if you are unsure what to feel about it, please consider replying with an intent to seek clarification before making assumptions.
If You See a Problem, Flag It
If you see behavior you think is problematic, please flag it. Diverse communities don't always share the same definitions, and community discourse is not always best served by prioritizing comfort over conflict. However, if enough flags accrue, any mitigation actions deemed necessary can be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.
In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason that violates or threatens the spirit and practices of this community. When/if a post is removed, moderators will provide the reason for the removal. Moderators do not preview new posts; moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community members.
Keep It Tidy
Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:
- Please start a discussion in the relevant category/thread/sub-forum/forum.
- Please avoid cross-posting the same message in multiple topics or threads so that we can keep this space organized.
- Please post replies with content in them.
- Please do your best to stay focused on the original topic when you post under a thread.
- Please note that you may add a signature to your profile so that every post you make will have this signature.
- Please use the "Thumbs Up" button located at the top right corner to thank a content creator's relevant message rather than replying to the creator's message with "+1" or "Agreed."
All users can send private messages to each other on issues that you may want to discuss with others privately. Please note that attachments are not allowed in private messages.
If you receive an inappropriate private message from another user or spam messages in any form, please report it to an administrator.
Site Administrators
All administrators are here to maintain the functionality of this forum. Please be patient with them for outstanding issues that require their attention since they are either farmers and/or they work on other farm and seed related projects or have other obligations when they aren't here.
This forum isn't an outreach component of or funded by any grants. None of the administrators or moderators are paid to take care of the tasks on this website's front or backend.
Disclaimer
No content provided on this website (https://seedgrowers.net) can be used for institutional research or data collection purposes without explicit permissions from the founders and/or members of the website.
People who may have more experience or access to resources and knowledge on producing seeds make many mistakes, sometimes costly, every season, and they improve or modify their practices upon these mistakes year after year. Hence, they learn from their own mistakes. Neither the domain owner, Mehmet Öztan, nor any administrators nor any other member who offers help at https://seedgrowers.net are responsible for potential crop or financial damages or personal injuries any of the members of this website may experience due to advice, tutorials or help offered in any other form on this website.